evelopers tend to be proud of their skills with a particular programming tool. This is particularly true with Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic developers. Visual FoxPro (VFP) developers are proud
or many developers, there is a special affinity for their “first programming language,” to the extent that wars are fought daily on the programming newsgroups over which language is best.
erlNET, the technology that is part of ActiveState’s Perl Development Kit, provides .NET access to thousands of Perl modules written over years. This opens up the feature rich .NET Framework
his article describes the goals and scope of the Eiffel language and explains how Eiffel for .NET can interoperate with other .NET languages. The article also demonstrates using Eiffel for
hen designing the new version of ASP, Microsoft put a lot of effort into the individuation of a powerful and effective extensibility model. The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) was the
ith VB.NET’s new method overloading feature, VB programmers don’t have to stay up all night trying to come up with different names for methods that basically do the same thing
hile the Data Form Wizard creates a fully functional data-entry form, you are left with a result that embeds the data logic directly in the user interface. This article shows
he move from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET is undeniably substantial. Visual Basic .NET offers more power and flexibility while maintaining its signature appeal and emphasis on productivity.
ost programmers have used the Application object to store system-wide values. While this is a convenient storage facility, it does have a few disadvantages: There is no IntelliSense when retrieving